Bonjour Tristesse (French Edition)

About this book

Endearing self-absorbed seventeen-year-old Ccile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school she joins her father a handsome still-young widower with a wandering eye for a carefree two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress Elsa. Ccile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late mothers best friend Anne intrudes upon a young girls pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults Ccile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic unexpected consequences. The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenagers attempts to understand and control the world around her Franoise Sagans Bonjour Tristesse is a beautifully composed wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.